The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-19
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OF Bayard Taylor in his bright young
manhood, when first he was one of the
editors of the Tribune, r. Fl. Stoddard
says that be twas tall, erect, active-look-
ing and manly, with an aquiline nose,
bright, loving eyes, and the dark ring
leted hair with which we endow, in ideal,
the heads of poets"
john Blackwood, one day in con-
versation with Miss Annie Brewster, re.
lated how he and George Eliot had cor
responded some time before he knew she
was woman. 81 called her Dear
George" he said merrily, "and employed
some easy expressions, such as a man
uses only to a man. After knew her I
was little anxious to remember all I
might have said"
Walt Whitman remembers meet
ing General Taylor in New Orleans about
forty years ago, and found him in civil
ians clothes, SO jovial, old, rather stout
plain man with wrinkled and dark yell
low face and in ways and manners the
least OF conventional ceremony or ETH
quette ever saw; he laughed unrestrain-
eddy at everything comical. He had a
great personal resemblance to Fennimore
Cooper, the novelist"
Sir Henry Gordon has given the
British Museum two interesting relics
OF his illustrious brother. One is a pen
and ink sketch-map by Gordon of his
operations in China, with the date of the
capture Of each town written under it.
including practically all the operations
OF the ever-victorious army" The other
Is the Chinese Emperor's decree to Lii
Hung Chang ordering him to give to
Gordon the highest decoration of the
Empire and $4,000 in money, of which
Gordon accepted the former end declined
the latter,
u. w. Higginson's recent declara-
ton that he has heard Harvard pro-
lessor say in his classroom eve was" ia
startling enough to destroy the appetite
of all Boston. It reminds one of those
college boys who were having a spread
and spree in their rooms when there
came a laundering knock at the door. and
they asked who was there. "Me," said
the angry voice of the college president.
oh, no." said the boys, "you can't give
us that; if it were President -, he
would have said, 1t is L. Go on away"
And the baffied dignitary VENT Graphic.
DIR. Windthorst, Prince Bismarck's
chief foe in the Reichstag, is described as
little man very ugly to look at, with
eyes like frogs and mouth reaching
from ear to ear. He is opposed to Bis
marck ostensibly on patriotic but really
on personal grounds, his grievance being
that In 1886 by the annexation of Han
over he was eliminated from a fat office
which he had held in that kingdom, He is
the reverse of Bismarck in nearly all re-
spects. Bismarck is big, Windthorst lit
tie; the former rough and overbearing;
the latter polished and suave; the one a
sturdy Protestant, the other an ardent
Romanist.
Rev. George Willis Cooke has pre-
pared six lectures on "Ihe Intellectual.
Educational and Literary Advancement
OF Women in England" from the time of
Elizabeth to that of Victoria. These lee
lures are historical, biographical, and
critical, and are written with a view to
their becoming popular and interesting.
They briefly sketch the lives of all the
leading women OF letters, describe the ed
ucation given to women at the successive
periods of English history, outline the
causes influencing authorship among wo-
men, and give many suggestive details of
clubs, lotteries and schools. Mr.. Cooke is
prepared to deliver these lectures before
colleges, clubs or parlor gatherings.
Colonel Wagstaff, of West Point,was
brave and daring regular army officer
during the war, and received a brigadier-
generals brevet for "gallant and mer-
itorious conduct" He was an inimitable
wit, and his stories will long remain as
classic at the Point One day while the war
was in progress an acquaintance met him
on the street in New York, and during the
conversation inquired whether it was his
rank as colonel or his brevet as brigadier
that regulated his salary. With merry
twinkle Wagstaff replied: "When Ham,
let's father cried out, Oh, my offence is
rank and smells to heaven he didn't
mean brevet rank, for there isn't a scent
in it."
Writing Of Mr.. Whistler's ancestry,
a Chicago Tribune correspondent relates
that in 1888 Major Whistler was COM
mandant of Fort Dearborn. Hehad been
a British officer, and 1 think, WAS an
Irishman, but when made prisoner by the